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Getting Started / Slide Canvas

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Let's work with the Slide Canvas. I just went ahead and typed some words, and now I'm going to make another textbox. And you can join me just by typing on your canvas. I typed - "Do you like cheese?" I'll line this up a little bit. I want to open up my color palette. Again I could pick and choose a color from the color wheel. Let's go ahead and do that. Click on the color in the color wheel and drag it from the top. Choose another color and drag it from the top. We could close that out temporarily. And we are going to open up the Inspector - I could choose the Text Inspector which is the little 'T', and I could double click right here, and the color palette appears. I need to adjust the color. Now, if I were to select it, choose a color, it doesn't change. I can drag it from the top - it will still work. But there is another way to actually do this. I'm going select this text, double click the color wheel, and I can pick and choose any color I want. And you see, it changes on the fly. This is more effective. I could also control the character spacing, and the other options that are involved. We also have alignment. Select the text, change the color. I could also choose CYMK sliders, which we'll get into a little later. Like so. If I drag a marquee over these objects, I can align these objects, or perhaps bring out a guide. Here is the rulers and you can click on the ruler and drag out the guide. And this is for aligning things up. We would also align everything that's selected to the left, and it flushes everything to the left side. We could tap delete once we click on the object, or we can hold down the Alt/Option to drag out another copy. Drag out another guide, tap delete, and the textbox has gone. We could delete a slide and start with the preset that Keynote has set for us already - it says double click to edit. It's exactly what you're going to do - double click to edit, and then you could type whatever you like. Double click to edit and add some copy. Now, I'm going to select this textbox and select this text. And let's see how we could control the alignment of text with the Inspector. Using the Text Inspector, I could align to the middle, to the left, middle. I could align to the top of the box, middle of the box or the bottom of the box. And the same thing goes for my little blurb that I have here - control the alignment. that I have here - control the alignment.

Tutorial Information

Course: Keynote
Author: Mario Leone
SKU: 33421
ISBN: 193207225X
Release Date: 2003-05-15
Duration: 6 hrs / 103 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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